OUR NEW GOVERNOR.

Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7242, 31 December 1888, Page 6

OUR NEW GOVERNOR.

No word has vet reached London (says the correspondent of the Melbourne Argus) of any dissentient note in regard U> Lord Onflow's appointment to New Zealand, nor I should say, is there likely to be one. The wonder is that, in his cif cumstances, he should care to leave London, for he is regarded as a typical and enthusiastic Londoner, au fait with all its inner social and artistic life, friend with all that is best and brightest in its varied societies, and endowed with all that makes life pleasant in point of residence, family station, and fortune. The fact is that his lordship is ambitious ajid rest;' less. It js ngt" enough ffo him; to bei • Wdantc peer, with an pccasKmai odd job of public work thrown. & him. He wants to we fche world, to tgke paj* m affaire, and to wake ft name fop himself. For these reasons he seeks a colonial go* vernment in a self-governing community. The eeniality of his nature, the grace- of his wife, ana the art of hospitality which is possessed equally by both, well fit the Governor designate of New Zealand for his post: but there is no doubt that his I own ambition will not be satisfied until he has had an opportunity of showing his administrative capacity in one of the Presidencies of India, even Simla itself.